56th NAACP Image Awards
The 56th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music, and literature during the 2024 calendar year. The ceremony aired on February 22, 2025, on BET and simulcasted on CBS. Untelevised Image Awards categories were livestreamed February 21 on the Image Awards website.
Submissions were received online from August 26 to November 8, 2024, and public online voting on the shortlisted nominations for performance categories ran from January 7 to February 7, 2025, on the Image Awards website.
Winners and nominees
All nominees are listed below, and the winners are listed in bold.Special Awards
Motion Picture
Documentary
Television
Drama
Comedy
Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special
Overall Acting
Reality and Variety
- Jennifer Hudson – The Jennifer Hudson Show
- * Abby Phillip – NewsNight with Abby Phillip
- * Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- * Joy Reid – The Reidout
- * Sherri Shepherd – Sherri
! style="width=50%" |Outstanding Host in a Reality, Game Show or Variety
- Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...
- * BET Awards 2024
- * Deon Cole: Ok, Mister
- * Katt Williams: Woke Foke
- * Saturday Night Live
- Keke Palmer – Password
- * Alfonso Ribeiro – Dancing with the Stars
- * Nick Cannon – The Masked Singer
- * Steve Harvey – Celebrity Family Feud
- * Taraji P. Henson – ''BET Awards 2024''
Other Categories